Film Festivals 1999
1999's festivals were categorised by a stand-out crop of documentaries, 'Ghengis Blues', Werner Herzog's 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly', Ken Burns' 'Frank Lloyd Wright', Cuban music legends 'Buena Vista Social Club' and the hilariously insightful 'American Movie'. And along with these some highly imaginative and challenging features such as Lars von Trier's 'Idiots', Darren Aronofsky's 'Pi', Todd Solondz's 'Happiness', Tom Tykwer's 'Run, Lola, Run' and low-budget sci-fi hit, 'Cube' (pictured).
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
7.8/10
Director: Julio Medem
Starring: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martinez, Sara Valiente, Victor Hugo Oliviera
This startling, quirky and deeply romantic drama focuses on two lovers who first cross at the age of eight when each is running for different reasons.... Read more
Pi - Faith in Chaos (1998)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis
This original work focuses on an obsessed math prodigy. A strange numeric pattern thrown up by the fluctuations of the stock market, which only he can... Read more
Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
6.1/10
Director: Tony Vitale
Starring: Nick Scotti, Anthony Barrile, Anthony Desando
Can a homophobic tough guy and an out-of-the-closet gay man find happiness splitting the rent in Midtown Manhattan? This and other crucial questions a... Read more
Happy Together (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Chang Chen
This mesmeric story of love lost and endured focuses on two gay lovers who go to Buenos Aires to start over, but find themselves in a familiar vicious... Read more
Live Flesh (1997)
7.4/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Angela Molina, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem, Liberto Rabal, Penelope Cruz
During a fight with his junkie girlfriend, police intervene and an officer is shot. Six years later the wrongly convicted Victor is shocked to learn h... Read more
Frank Lloyd Wright (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Starring: Frank Lloyd Wright
An absorbing study of U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright's tumultuous life and career. Using all manner of original photographs, plans, home movies of... Read more
My Son The Fanatic (1997)
7/10
Director: Udayan Prasad
Starring: Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Stellan Skarsgard
This insightful, multi-layered, heartwarming film examines a Pakistani coming to terms with his life in England. Parvez (Om Puri), a good natured taxi... Read more
Twentyfourseven (1997)
7.1/10
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, James Hooton
The title is local Midlands English slang for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This poignant, hard-hitting drama focuses on an idealistic 1980s burn... Read more
Waco: The Rules Of Engagement (1997)
8/10
Director: William Gazecki
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, this controversial feature chronicles the 1993 stand-off in Waco, Texas, between the Branch David... Read more
Cube (1997)
7.3/10
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller
Six strangers wake up inside a three-dimensional maze of interlocking cubes. None of them know how they got there or why they have been chosen. Some c... Read more